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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">The Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research (ACPIR) invites you to join our monthly Pacific
Seminar Series, where people discuss aspects of their research, work or cultural experiences related to the Pacific Islands to stimulate conversations and connections.</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">This month's topic:<b>
<i>How does technology adoption interact with socio-cultural change amongst smallholder farmers in Papua New Guinea?</i></b></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span style="color:black">Prof George N. Curry and Assoc Prof Gina Koczberski<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#262626">When: </span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#262626">12 - 1pm Wed 30 Mar, 2022
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#262626">In this seminar, Professor George N. Curry and Associate Professor Gina Koczberski will discuss technology adoption amongst smallholder farmers in Papua New
Guinea. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:27.7pt;line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">The low rate of technology adoption has long been recognised as a key constraint on improving productivity, income and yields in
farming, particularly amongst small farmers in developing countries. In this presentation, we explore the role of socio-cultural factors in smallholder decision-making regarding the adoption of new technologies. Drawing on two case studies from cocoa and
oil palm in Papua New Guinea, we illustrate the value of examining proposed innovations and technologies in terms of their capacity to undermine or strengthen indigenous socio-cultural values as a way of understanding potential points of resistance or pathways
to adoption. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">Prof. George Curry</span></b><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black"> is a Geographer at Curtin University. Most of his
research has been in rural Papua New Guinea, examining sociocultural and economic change associated with modernisation and the transition to a market economy at the household and community levels. He uses a sustainable livelihoods approach to investigate how
export cash cropping and labour migration are accommodated within quasi-subsistence economies, where indigenous relations of production and exchange and communal land tenure are still strong.
</span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#262626">Prof Phil Brown</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#262626"> is Professor of Horticulture Science and Director of the Institute for Future Farming Systems
at CQUniversity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">Assoc. Prof. Gina Koczberski</span></b><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black"> is a Geographer and a Senior Research Fellow at Curtin University. She has
over 25 years of research and fieldwork experience in PNG working on issues around internal migration and migrant livelihoods, land tenure, agricultural and rural change, gender, and smallholder production and livelihood practices. Since 2000 she has been
involved in several research projects examining socio-economic change in smallholder oil palm, coffee and cocoa production in PNG, with an emphasis on examining how changing demographic, economic and social circumstances influence household/gender relations
of production and strategies of commodity crop production.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:#385623;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Dr Inez Mahony</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#385623;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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